Photo 51
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Photo 51 is a 1952 X-ray based fiber diffraction image of a paracrystalline gel composed of DNA fiber taken by Rosalind Franklin's PhD student Raymond Gosling at King's College London, while working i
Photo 51, showing X-ray diffraction pattern of DNA
Cartoon explanation of how Photo 51 captured the double helix structure of DNA.
Maurice Wilkins
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Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins was a New Zealand-born British biophysicist and Nobel laureate whose research spanned multiple areas of physics and biophysics, contributing to the scientific understand
Photo 51
…gel composed of DNA fiber taken by Rosalind Franklin's PhD student Raymond Gosling at King's College London, while working in Sir John Randall's group; Maurice Wilkins later shared the image with James Watson without their permission. The image was tagged "photo 51" because it was the 51st diffraction photograph that…
Maurice Wilkins with one of the cameras he developed specially for X-ray diffraction studies at King's College London
Monument to Maurice Wilkins, Main Street, Pongaroa, New Zealand
A plaque commemorating Maurice Wilkins and his discovery, beneath the monument, Pongaroa, New Zealand